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Everything he does, he does it for us. Why Bryan Adams is on to something important about copyright

Written by Rebecca Giblin, ARC Future Fellow; Associate Professor, Monash University

Last Tuesday Bryan Adams entered the copyright debate.

That’s Bryan Adams the singer and songwriter, the composer of “(Everything I Do) I Do It for You”, and “Summer of ’69”.

Authors, artists and composers often have little bargaining power, and are often pressured to sign away their rights to their publisher for...

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